Have you ever felt like leaving for a while? Lately I've felt... apathetic? about going to classes and studying and having responsibilities and looking for a job and pretty much everything involving a sense of growing up.
At school I was looking around the old Indyfluency threads and I think it was Alise that posted pictures of this lake in British Columbia (Noromoto? Naramata?) and I thought it was just beautiful and I google mapped it and stared at it for a while. On the way home, I remember seeing that exit coming up, from 680 southbound to I-80 to the 505 and onto highway 5 and thinking "I could do it." I could just leave. Maybe call my parents to say I'd be gone a while, or for however long eight hundred dollars is going to last me. A thousand and nineteen miles might be worth it.
I'm home right now, and writing my second technical report for the week. I could have done it.